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victims to the post-Soviet authorities, which are remarkable self-testimonies. Next to supporting documents, they often contain detailed biographical
accounts and, in some cases, even personal photographs. These documents
provide historians with exciting insights not only into how nuclear accidents
were handled in the Soviet era and how people lived and worked in radioactively contaminated environments but also into the subjective perceptions of
environmental victims of post-Soviet transformation processes.
Notes
1. Constantin Goschler, “Der Umgang mit den Opfern des Nationalsozialismus in
Deutschland nach 1945,” in: Günther Heydemann and Clemens Vollnhals (eds.),
Nach den Diktaturen. Der Umgang mit den Opfern in Europa (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 2016), 27–45.
2. Svenja Goltermann, Opfer: die Wahrnehmung von Krieg und Gewalt in der Moderne
(Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer-Verlag, 2017); Peter Hallama, “Geschichtswissenschaften, Memory Studies und der Passive Turn. Zur Frage der Opferperspektive in der
erinnerungskulturellen Forschung,” in: Erik Franzen and Martin Schulze Wessel
(eds.), Opfernarrative. Konkurrenzen und Deutungskämpfe in Deutschland und im östlichen
Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (München: Veröffentlichungen des Collegium
Carolinum 126, 2012), 9–27, here 14; Critics warn, however, that the strong focus
on historical victims risks fading out contemporary phenomena of violence and
exclusion, i.e. the victims of today.
3. Michel Wieviorka, Neuf lecons de sociologie (Paris: Pluriel, 2008), 162.
4. Jean-Michel Chaumont, Die Konkurrenz der Opfer. Genozid, Identität und Anerkennung (Lüneburg: zu Klampen Verlag, 2001).
5. Goltermann, Opfer.
6. Ruti G. Teitel, Transitional Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 69–94.
7. Jan Eckel, Die Ambivalenz des Guten: Menschenrechte in der internationalen Politik seit
den 1940ern (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).
8. Guillermo O. Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule:
Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991), 30; Vladimir Tsimaneanu, Fantasies of Salvation. Democracy,
Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 116. According to John Borneman, the significance of retributive
justice goes far beyond the fate of individual victims and perpetrators and is part of
a “global ritual purification of the center of political regimes that seek democratic
legitimacy.” C.f. John Borneman, Settling Accounts. Violence, Justice and Accountability
in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), VIII.
9. Regula Ludi, Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012).
10. Anne K. Krüger, Wahrheitskommissionen. Die globale Verbreitung eines kulturellen
Modells (Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2014), 256; Anne K. Krüger, “Transitional Justice,” Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 25.1.2013. URL: http://
docupedia.de/zg/Transitional_Justice?oldid=125451.
11. Gordon Walker, Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics (London and
New York, NY: Routledge, 2011); Michael Kloepfer, Umweltgerechtigkeit. Environmental Justice in der deutschen Rechtsordnung (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006);
David Schlosberg, Defining environmental justice. Theories, movements, and nature
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen
(eds.), Technoscience and Environmental Justice. Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011); Spencer Banzhaf (ed.), The Political Economy of
victims to the post-Soviet authorities, which are remarkable self-testimonies. Next to supporting documents, they often contain detailed biographical
accounts and, in some cases, even personal photographs. These documents
provide historians with exciting insights not only into how nuclear accidents
were handled in the Soviet era and how people lived and worked in radioactively contaminated environments but also into the subjective perceptions of
environmental victims of post-Soviet transformation processes.
Notes
1. Constantin Goschler, “Der Umgang mit den Opfern des Nationalsozialismus in
Deutschland nach 1945,” in: Günther Heydemann and Clemens Vollnhals (eds.),
Nach den Diktaturen. Der Umgang mit den Opfern in Europa (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 2016), 27–45.
2. Svenja Goltermann, Opfer: die Wahrnehmung von Krieg und Gewalt in der Moderne
(Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer-Verlag, 2017); Peter Hallama, “Geschichtswissenschaften, Memory Studies und der Passive Turn. Zur Frage der Opferperspektive in der
erinnerungskulturellen Forschung,” in: Erik Franzen and Martin Schulze Wessel
(eds.), Opfernarrative. Konkurrenzen und Deutungskämpfe in Deutschland und im östlichen
Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (München: Veröffentlichungen des Collegium
Carolinum 126, 2012), 9–27, here 14; Critics warn, however, that the strong focus
on historical victims risks fading out contemporary phenomena of violence and
exclusion, i.e. the victims of today.
3. Michel Wieviorka, Neuf lecons de sociologie (Paris: Pluriel, 2008), 162.
4. Jean-Michel Chaumont, Die Konkurrenz der Opfer. Genozid, Identität und Anerkennung (Lüneburg: zu Klampen Verlag, 2001).
5. Goltermann, Opfer.
6. Ruti G. Teitel, Transitional Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 69–94.
7. Jan Eckel, Die Ambivalenz des Guten: Menschenrechte in der internationalen Politik seit
den 1940ern (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).
8. Guillermo O. Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule:
Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991), 30; Vladimir Tsimaneanu, Fantasies of Salvation. Democracy,
Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 116. According to John Borneman, the significance of retributive
justice goes far beyond the fate of individual victims and perpetrators and is part of
a “global ritual purification of the center of political regimes that seek democratic
legitimacy.” C.f. John Borneman, Settling Accounts. Violence, Justice and Accountability
in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), VIII.
9. Regula Ludi, Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012).
10. Anne K. Krüger, Wahrheitskommissionen. Die globale Verbreitung eines kulturellen
Modells (Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2014), 256; Anne K. Krüger, “Transitional Justice,” Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 25.1.2013. URL: http://
docupedia.de/zg/Transitional_Justice?oldid=125451.
11. Gordon Walker, Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics (London and
New York, NY: Routledge, 2011); Michael Kloepfer, Umweltgerechtigkeit. Environmental Justice in der deutschen Rechtsordnung (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006);
David Schlosberg, Defining environmental justice. Theories, movements, and nature
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen
(eds.), Technoscience and Environmental Justice. Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011); Spencer Banzhaf (ed.), The Political Economy of